Improvement in drainers for tumblers and dishes



Improvement in' Drainers `for Tumblers and Dishes.

4mnwnl May 30,1871.

fiumi 1 `the city, county,

`Dish-Drainer;` `and I do` hereby declare that 4 tion of the same, reference being had to the ac- `companyin `iflcation.l

. i I i with a number of vertical ribs of elastic material,\ th`e edges of which form a surface upon f which to place thewet dishes, the channels bei `tween said ribs inclining toward a waste-water outlet or a rinsing-basin. A

" b i y or simply as a drainer to hold d i i i init the surplus Water-to run oi' between the processes of rinsing and wiping, the elastic chipped or fractured.

view of my improved drainer in one of its f c nal section of the same on the line a a. Fig. i 3is a vertical cross-section of the same on the drainer embodying my improvement.

. canized India rubberor other elastic material,

i and with their ,upperedges on the lsame level `or nearly so, and thus forming a surfaceupon i il, body of the drainer in anywdesired manner,

NITED SrATEs g PETER w. NEEEUs, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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IMPROVMENTWIN DVRAINEVVRSFOR TUNlBL-ERfS` AND DISHES.

n Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,344, dated May 30, 1871.-

Be it known that I, PETER W. NEEEUs,.of and State of New York, have invented a `new and ImprovedA Tumbler and the following is a full, clearand exact descripgdrawing makingipart of this spec- My invention consistsiof a drainer provided The invention is applicable as a tumblerrack, for use in saloons or on family side-boards, ishes and persurface formed by the ribs effectually preventing the glass or crockery ware from being In thedraw'ing, `Figure 1 represents la plan forms Fig. 2 represents a vertical longitudiline b b.` Figi-.t is a plan view of a circular AA, &c., represent verticalribs of vularranged one-halfinch, more or less, apart,

which the tumblers or .dishes may be placed to drain. IThese ribs' are secured to themain such, for instance, as that shown in the drawing, in which the strips are cemented to separating pieces B B, and a number of ribs, A, and pieces B, sufcientto form a drainer of proper size, are surrounded and secured together by strips or moldings C. The ribs may, however, be secured by cementing their lower edges into grooves in a base-piece, substantially of the shape shown.v So, also, the ribs and base may be made of one piece of vulcanized India At or near the center of the drainer rubber. is formed an opening, D, which may be used simply as a drain, or may be of suficient size to containa rinsing-vat or give access to the same. The channels between the ribs A A all incline toward the opening D, so as to carry the water in that direction. In case there is no opening made in the drainer, the channels lmay be arranged to carry the watertoone end or to any desired point. c

Fig. 4 represents a circular drainer in' which the ribs are radial-short ones alternating with longer ones, so that there is acontinuous channel from all directions to the opening D in the center.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A drainer provided with a number of vertical ribs of elastic material, with inclined channels between the same to lead away the water, substantially in the manner and for the purposes speciiied.

' PETER W. NEEFUS.

Vitnesses T. B. BEEGHER, C11-As. E. EMERY. 

